Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive eBook

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TERMS

MINISTERIAL AND CHRISTIAN COMMUNION

1. An acknowledgment of the Old and New Testament
to be the Word of God, and the alone infallible rule
of faith and practice.

2. An acknowledgement that the whole doctrine
of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Catechisms,
larger and shorter, are agreeable unto, and founded
upon the Scriptures.

3. An acknowledgment that Presbyterian Church
government is of divine right, and unalterable:
and that the most perfect model as yet attained, is
exhibited in the Form of Government and Directory for
Worship, as adopted by the Church of Scotland, in
the Second Reformation.

4. An acknowledgment that public, social covenanting,
is an ordinance of God, and obligatory on churches
and nations under the New Testament dispensation:
and that the National Covenant of Scotland, and the
Solemn League and Covenant of Scotland, England and
Ireland, were an exemplification of this divine institution:
and that these solemn deeds are of perpetual obligation
upon the moral person, as continued by representation
and accession: and in consistency with this,
acknowledging the renovation of these covenants at
Auchensaugh, 1712, to be agreeable to the Word of
God.

5. An approbation of the faithful contendings
of the martyrs of Jesus, against paganism, popery,
prelacy, malignancy, and sectarianism; and against
immoral constitutions of civil government—­Erastian
tolerations and persecutions which flow therefrom:
the Judicial Act, Declaration and Testimony, emitted
by the Reformed Presbytery in North Britain, 1761,
together with the Historical and Declaratory Supplements
adopted by the Reformed Church in North America, 1850—­as
containing an noble example for their posterity to
follow, in contending for all divine truth, and in
testifying against all corruptions embodied in the
constitutions of either church or State.

6. Practically adorning the doctrine of God our
Savior, by walking in all his commandments and ordinances
blamelessly.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Christ’s rights, &c.
By these are not meant the rights of Christ personal.
It is not in the power of mortals, or any creature,
to acquire and secure these to him; but the rights
of Christ mystical, that is, of the church, or, of
his truth, true worship, and religion, and professors
of it as such.]

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